The Shining (1980) - Film Opening
Setting
Rural setting - mountains, snow, greenery/forest, wildlife, lakes
- Possibly set in Europe or in land parts of North America
- we travel through the immense landscape, setting the film as far away from cities and huge populations.
Music
As we travel with the car through the opening sequence the non-digectic sound used
- Deep minor tones - long dragging notes (sinister and mysterious)
- gradually leading into high major notes creating a thrill to the atmosphere
The music creates the atmosphere and tension of the opening sequence. Quite airy and creepy.
Camera
During the opening credits the camera...
- Uses longshots to setting the mise-en-scene
- pans the landscape of, mountains, lakes, forrest
- tracks the car through it's journey around the land as it gets further and further towards where the film is set (in a estate)
- The fact that the camera is following the car shows that it's being is important to the film
...the use of the camera being like this gets the audience into the film as though they are the tracker.
Credits
The credits show that the film s based on a famous thriller novelist - Stephen King - which can set the typical genre f most of his stories.
The Shining - Opening (Video)
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